Rich Galen

Rich Galen has been described as "what you get when you cross a political hack with a philosopher."

His career includes work in and out of politics, in and out of the United States.

In 2003-2004, Rich did a tour of duty in Iraq where he went at the request of the White House. The assignment - which was to have lasted about eight weeks, stretched into six months. While there, he was responsible for bringing the message of the positive aspects of what the coalition was doing in Iraq back to Middle America.

My Articles

The governing theory of President Barack Obama's foreign policy swung into full view Sunday when Thomas Freidman wrote in his Sunday New York Times Column: "When President Obama sits down to write his foreign policy memoir he may be tempted to use as his book title the four words he reportedly uses privately to summarize the Obama doctrine: 'Don't Do Stupid Stuff'...

I am not a conspiracy guy, but the White House has some explaining to do and all the bluster by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev) or House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca) will not change that fact.

Democratic operatives and message mavens over the past two weeks and they have been vociferous in their claims that Republicans are wrong in their estimation that Obamacare will be a negative issue for Democrats in November's elections.

I hope Kathleen Sebelius does run for the U.S. Senate from Kansas, and I hope she runs on Obamacare. That would nationalize the Senate race in Kansas and give every other Republican candidate in the country a pivot point with their voters. Then there's Wendy Davis...

Sebelius' biggest sin was not in overseeing Obamacare's breach birth. It was handing Congressional Republicans a gift of enormous, massive, gargantuan proportions because, you may remember, the GOP had just finished shutting down the government over the issue of Obamacare as an unworkable program.

There is no issue - NO issue - on which the President cracks 50 percent approval. On the issue of the "federal budget and spending," he scored a dismal 33-63 disapproval. Note to GOP candidates: Write that down.

Can we take a day off from Ukraine and CPAC and missing airliners to celebrate something very special? It's the need for most of us to want to learn new things; and for being blessed by having a few people who know about those things and, more important, know how to explain them to the rest of us.

In addition to Vladimir Putin's strutting and fretting his hour upon the world stage, the big news out of the U.S. Senate yesterday was that seven Democrats voted with all 44 Republicans on a test vote on the confirmation of a guy named Debo Adegbile to be the head of the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice.

It is unlikely we will go to war with Russia over Crimea. But, if those Russian tanks were to begin to roll westward, we might be looking at Cold War II and President Obama's choices would shrink very quickly.